CrunchBang 10 "Statler" Alpha 2 Released

corenominal · 2010-06-25 22:51:33

The second alpha of CrunchBang 10 "Statler" is now available.

If you do decide to give it a try, please do not forget to provide feedback. Your comments and suggestions are really important to the future development of the project and all feedback is gratefully accepted.

For anyone who might be interested, I have written some release notes on the wiki -- I have probably missed a bunch of stuff, so if you have any questions, please just ask. smile

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped to test the first alpha release. You all rock! smile

luc · 2010-06-25 23:36:24

Downloading ...
Damn this will take another hour. But I have to go to bed... AAAARRRRRRGGG what should i do
*happily exited*

FiniteStateMachine · 2010-06-25 23:57:03

Awesome, great work, I'll give it a test spin sometime tomorrow smile

aaro · 2010-06-26 00:01:48

Downloading openbox i686 smile ... Thanks corenominal

chromium · 2010-06-26 00:09:14

downloading it, too (both) big_smile . great work and thank you corenominal smile

Vicophine · 2010-06-26 00:35:16

I had to add a line to the boot (acpi=off) and I am in the livecd environment right now, but how can I install this alpha from the livecd environment? smile

Otherwise, awesome build! Keep it up!

vrkalak · 2010-06-26 00:52:13

I've been on holiday ... but, #! A2 is downloading as we speak.

jpope · 2010-06-26 00:55:41

Woohoo!

Install order for me:
First virtualbox, second Eee, third desktop and finally if all goes well, I'm replacing 9.04 on the desktop.
If it's anything like Alpha 1, I'll be at the replacing 9.04 part very soon...

Thank you Muppet army!
Oh, and you too corenominal. big_smile

jollysnowman · 2010-06-26 01:03:43

Is there a way to update from Alpha 1? I'm running apt-get update and dist-upgrade, but there's nothing to upgrade.

corenominal · 2010-06-26 01:20:41

jollysnowman wrote:

Is there a way to update from Alpha 1? I'm running apt-get update and dist-upgrade, but there's nothing to upgrade.

It sounds as if your system is up-to-date. If you are happy with how it is running, I would not suggest doing anything more. However, if you are concerned that you might be missing any of the packages included in the new builds, you can install one, or both of the following metapackages:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install crunchbang-openbox-packages

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install crunchbang-xfce-packages

All the new config files are included in a new package, it can be installed with:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install crunchbang-configs

The above package will only populate your /etc/skel directory. You can examine the contents of the files to workout whether or not you wish to copy any of the changes to your home directory.

Hope this helps. smile

corenominal · 2010-06-26 01:26:13

Vicophine wrote:

I had to add a line to the boot (acpi=off) and I am in the livecd environment right now, but how can I install this alpha from the livecd environment?

There is talk of a Debian installer that will work in a live environment, but as far as I know, it is not really usable at the moment. If there is any movement on its development, I will be sure to test it again. Meanwhile, the only installation method remains as a selection from the initial boot screen. Sorry. smile

corenominal · 2010-06-26 01:27:06

jpope wrote:

Thank you Muppet army!
Oh, and you too corenominal.

lol

liame · 2010-06-26 01:29:08

29 minutes to go!! big_smile
i think i'll try the upgrade first with those packages (good time to learn to examine the content of files) and try the alpha 2 as livecd

polarb · 2010-06-26 01:52:48

I installed the openbox version with USB Unetbootin and very much impressed. The USB installation is a snap: everything is automated and prior issues are all gone. Everything took less then 5 minutes. The welcome script is also very pleasant. I enjoyed the cairo composition. This alpha 2 is nicely improved and continues to be refined. Now I am posting from this new installed version. Corenominal this is an awesome job as usual... Thanks.

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corenominal · 2010-06-26 02:03:58

polarb wrote:

I installed the openbox version with USB Unetbootin and very much impressed. The USB installation is a snap: everything is automated and prior issues are all gone. Everything took less then 5 minutes.

Excellent, thank you for testing it with UNetbootin, I have run some tests myself, but it still good to know it is working in the wild. Good stuff and thank you again! smile

mick · 2010-06-26 02:04:01

I am almost wetting myself with anticipation!!! big_smile

(Oh, wait a minute; that sounds really bad...) hmm

Phillip, I hoist a glass to your inestimable Linuxness... big_smile
("Linuxness" Is that a word??? Ah, crap - who cares!) roll

Good job, mate! big_smile

winotree · 2010-06-26 02:17:12

I was sitting here when corenominal posted that Statler alpha-2 was ready. When I came back from the download it seems 13, maybe 14 other people were already in line offering their thanks.

Download -- well done.
Burn disk -- well done.
Tossed salad with bison steak -- medium.
Installation -- clever intro and smooth deployment. This was the easiest installation of any I've done in nearly three years on any distribution.

It was a matter of a few minutes to transfer my personal configuration files to this new setup. The files were all made fresh last night in anticipation of this happening -- which was sooner than I thought. big_smile

Thank you so much for all the thought and effort you've put into this and thanks for sharing it, too.

Now -- time to play!

EDIT - uh, make that 16

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jcris · 2010-06-26 02:32:55

WoW! I love the new script at first boot.
Install is fast, it took longer to burn the CD than it did to install on my laptop HD. Im about 10 minutes away from installing it on this desktop now, waiting for 2nd laptop to finish installing.

Thank You for a nice smooth distro!!!!!

And thanks for finding a way to improve what was already perfect!

liame · 2010-06-26 02:40:35

trying the live version
first thing that cough my eye: the cairo compositing
now to sleep and hope tomorrow to star examining those files and see how to mix them with my actual configuration.

THANK U CORENOMINAL

slapfish · 2010-06-26 04:02:42

Alpha 2 report after 30min of usage and being very sleepy but happy big_smile

* I'm testing openbox-amd64
* Unetbootin to usb-stick: failed multiple times (all of them after re-formating usb)
* dd to usb: success
* Boot: success

* Love at first boot: success!!!

* Cairo compositing: wonderful (I didn't like the compositing effects but I think I'll keep that)
* Dropbox: installed and working great. (By the way, how can we share a folder other than the default dropbox in home? I know that with nautilus this can be done, but in thunar?? perhaps with a custom action if it's possible?)
* I was surprised by the fact that both monitors, laptop's and external, were both identified during startup and set to twin-view, although without nvidia drivers I'm stacked to 1024x768 resolution instead of 1280x800 and everything look odd. (What is the reason for that? a new default xorg file or something?)
* Finally I gave a quick look at themes which are WAY too many!!! Most probably I'll remove them all except the statler's and 1 or 2 that I like. It's really nice to have them though...having choices is good!

Really Great Work corenominal!!!
Thank you once again!

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I'm putting cb-fortune to autostart.sh

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corenominal · 2010-06-26 04:35:32

slapfish wrote:

Dropbox: installed and working great. (By the way, how can we share a folder other than the default dropbox in home? I know that with nautilus this can be done, but in thunar?? perhaps with a custom action if it's possible?)

I think Dropbox has an API, so it could be possible. I will look into it some more.

I was surprised by the fact that both monitors, laptop's and external, were both identified during startup and set to twin-view, although without nvidia drivers I'm stacked to 1024x768 resolution instead of 1280x800 and everything look odd. (What is the reason for that? a new default xorg file or something?)

Are the Nouveau drivers responsible for this?

Finally I gave a quick look at themes which are WAY too many!!! Most probably I'll remove them all except the statler's and 1 or 2 that I like. It's really nice to have them though...having choices is good!

There are quite a few themes, but generally they do not use much drive space. smile

Thanks for the feedback! smile

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I'm putting cb-fortune to autostart.sh

lol

polarb · 2010-06-26 04:38:00

One little good news about Acer Aspire timeline series ( 4810t is the one tested) : The adjustment of brightess was problematic for this group of laptop. Current kernel in squeeze is not solving the problem but updating the kernel to experimental along with statler alpha2 is solving the problem with no other configuration necessary.

anonymous · 2010-06-26 05:01:29

slapfish wrote:

Dropbox: installed and working great. (By the way, how can we share a folder other than the default dropbox in home? I know that with nautilus this can be done, but in thunar?? perhaps with a custom action if it's possible?)

http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/SyncOtherFolders

jcris · 2010-06-26 05:18:16

I found one tiny little issue in the xfce version, and it happened on all 3 of the PC's Ive installed on so far. The keyboard layout was on gu or UK symbols or whatever its called, but it was simple to go into keyboard options and change it to US. It didn't happen in alpha 1 so I dunno if its something I did or thats just how it turned out.

vrkalak · 2010-06-26 05:28:08

jcris wrote:

I found one tiny little issue in the xfce version, and it happened on all 3 of the PC's Ive installed on so far. The keyboard layout was on gu or UK symbols or whatever its called, but it was simple to go into keyboard options and change it to US. It didn't happen in alpha 1 so I dunno if its something I did or thats just how it turned out.

Yes ... it was also like this in the #!Crunchbang Alpha 1 versions, as well ... because, corenominal (the only developer of #!) is from the UK or gb (Great Britain) ... it's us Americans that have to make changes to the keyboard autostart config files.

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